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Jerrod Carmichael

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  1. “And then because You know, like I have to be up at 8 tomorrow, which is, you know, not ideal, but it's fun. I mean, you know, you're up, you do it, we'll jump into some rehearsals or something.”

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  2. “So it really helped. I mean, certain nights, you know, you can kind of catch up, but I'm usually excited. I'm like, I'll read until like four or five in the morning and then”

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  3. “Not disrupting RIM cycles Is genuinely it's helped so much for someone like me who really, I mean, I got four and a half hours last night, which is not bad. It's not bad. Sometimes I'll do three, get solid 90 minute days in there.”

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  4. “Oh, that was fun. Me and my friend Ben used to just, oh, we competed on everything. Everything was, because if you're going to do it, in that moment, like, you know, you should have a need or at least a curiosity of what is being the best that this feel like, right? Like I went bowling the other night. And first kind of playing around and then my friends start bowling a little bit better. And I was like, I'm going to start bowling a little bit better. And you just, and before you know it, like, I'm like at least spares on every friend. Like I was like, I was hot because competition, it drives you.”

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  5. “Comedy thing. Hey, I am not to toot my own horn, but I'm fucking amazing, you know. I still can look at certain shoes and I know style numbers just like style numbers. I know what department it is”

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  6. “My brother was excited. They were excited. My mom was more nervous. My dad was really encouraging. But no one's ever done that from my neighborhood. No one had ever, I mean, what is that”

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  7. “Selling them, man. Just putting insoles in. Trying to sell you on some cleaner, you know, doing just the whole thing. And I did a damn good job. I was going to mind you. You know, finish line. I told a lot of, you know, I think I deserved more. I mean, I would criticize. Okay, anyway. A guy came in and he just small talk with a customer and I'm like, you know, what do you do? And he said, he's an actor. He lives in LA. And I was like, man, I really want to move to LA. And he was like, just move. And I was like, wait, what? And he was like, yeah, just move. And then he got me, told me about Westside Reynolds and Craigslist and all these things. I just found a place, told my parents, my sister bought me a plane ticket.”

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  8. “Yeah, it was kind of, you know what I've been thinking about it. It's been on my mind for a while. A guy came into the shoe store I was working at. Mind you, I'm like 1920 at the time.”

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  9. “New York, LA. You know, really New York for just repetition's sake, you know, like you can go up so many times. But LA is what, like, it really is the best are here, the best in New York. You want to be around the best. You don't want to just, you know, there are a lot of people kind of doing comedy. Look, there's a lot of people kind of doing it in New York and LA too. But also you have these amazing comedians and these people who spend all of their time. You kind of have to create or go to the artist colony for whatever you do, I think, right? Like you got to find it and you want to compete and you want to see what you have to gauge. You have to take the temperature. Oh, totally talking about.”

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  10. “I don't want to do it with someone, yeah, where the scene's not necessarily strong. And truthfully, there are great scenes around the country. There's, you know, Chicago and Atlanta and San Francisco has an amazing comedy scene.”

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  11. “Through social interaction. I started comedy in LA. I moved first and then did comedy because I'm competitive and you should be competitive at some point.”

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  12. “In every situation, you're kind of that guy. And, you know, eventually you accept it. You either run from it or accept it”

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  13. “That's a really good question because it is. Validation to obviously want to have the feeling inside your heart and know that you can do anything, right? Also, validation is important from outside sources. Like, I mean, you want to confirm that, I mean, if nobody's laughing. At some point, you know, at some point, you know, no matter how much you believe, like maybe this isn't a strength, you want to apply logic to, you know, your dreams and your beliefs. And I had friends who spoke very passionately about one friend in particular who was like, no, you think like a comedian. Like you really should do this. It's different. It's like, it's funny, but it's not the way just the guy at your job is funny. It's like different. And she pushed me really hard to do it. And you just kind of know like it was constant validation.”

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  14. “It was a thing that I felt I was really good at. I wasn't doing anything. I was in North Carolina. I was like, I mean, I was working at a shoe store and just. Not really doing anything.”

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  15. “Out on the road a lot. Yeah, he was on the road a lot. So, you know, me, my brother, and my mom, you know, a lot of times just. I don't know. It was really, I like the neighborhood. It was so many characters. You grew up in a neighborhood like that or the hood or whatever you call it. And it's, you know, so many characters is very passionate, very interesting people. Very passionate. Everyone feels very strongly about everything. You know, like everything is very strong, like the type of cigarette they smoke, every detail is really, you know, important to them.”

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  16. “It's so healthy. I hate when I see kids being inhibited. You have to, I guess you have to know the child. I guess the specifics of the child though.”

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  17. “They gave me a lot of freedom, and especially in this neighborhood, I've never had a curfew. I never had just like, all right, mom, going out. And she's like, all right, be safe. She just said a prayer and just sent me out into the world. You know, and just me and my friends, we just kind of go out and go get in fights and all the silly things that you do in the early days. Yeah.”

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  18. “We had fun, you know, like we had fun. I can't speak for everyone in the neighborhood, but we enjoyed ourselves. Like my childhood was just asking a lot of questions, really, you know, really curious about everything, you know, in a family that allowed room for that. Like, you know, Everything was challenged. We questioned everything, a lot of arguments, you know, like it was constant arguing, but fun arguments, you know, like amongst the family and friends in the neighborhood. I enjoyed it. I enjoy my childhood a lot. I mean, we didn't have a lot of money, but it was great. It was great. It was like, I had a really creative childhood, I think”

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  19. “Thinks it was, and it was just me, and then for the next hour, no exaggeration, I debated like 23 other students on like just like why this man deserved to commit a crime. And it was the most fun I ever had. It was like, it was like having information and then being able to put your own filter and manipulate it in your own way was so important to me. And that's kind of my comedy has a style or an intention behind it. It's that eighth grade class me against everyone else in the class.”

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  20. “Just when Kwame Nairi had me read the autobiography of Malcolm X start reading the New York Times and like the local newspaper. And this is like an eighth grade and taking in all this information and like learning and kind of discovering myself, like humor was just this big, it was how broke the tension of any information that I received. So I remember specifically there being one moment in class, I don't know why this stands out so much, but he wanted to have a debate, right? And so we read an article. I don't remember specifically what it was about, but we were choosing, it was a guy that committed a crime and deciding whether or not it was justified. And we were supposed to pick sides as a class. And he said, well, who thinks the crime, you know, wasn't justified. And everyone in the class except me raised their hand. And then they were like, well, who.”

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  21. “We, this is you, the kids in the neighborhood, my family, you know, everyone's involved and we're all, I was really blessed to be around a lot of creative minds, like people who are just like down and really creative and like really excited about just like jumping into characters and doing things. And so that was kind of the first experience, just kind of, but truthfully eighth grade was really important for me like just comedy, specifically just comedy and thinking that I was maybe funny, you know.”

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  22. “Oh, that's a great question. I think I was, so when I was a kid, we used to just record things. It was infatuated. We would take the camcorder and just like record things and do sketches or I guess our sketch. You don't know what they are. There's no form. It's like, no, you're just like recording whatever.”

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  23. “Remember that line? You can defuck the script. You can defuck the script later. That's actually brilliant. You can defuck the script later.”

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  24. “Very amazing squat for him. He paces around. He's like, I mean, and so many ideas, I've never met someone who has as many ideas as Evan. Just like rapid fire is able to take a thing and like.”

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  25. “I met because I want to get this right. I met Josh and Alex who work at this company. And then I believe I met Evan actually on the set of the first neighbors. I believe he seen me and Nick Stoller and Seth all involved in hiring me. But I'm trying to think the first time we met, I think, was on set at Neighbors and he's just like this I mean, he has incredible energy.”

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  26. “Yeah, it was. It was the thing that popped in my head. I saw her. I was like, yeah, she had really milky skin. What can you say?”

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  27. “Yeah, for Love at the Store, like the intention was to just capture me on a Saturday night at the comedy store. You know, I wanted it to be very, truthfully for time, but like Jamar neighbors, who's this hilarious guy, my best friend went up before me. Like I had this guy, Argus Hamilton, just like this legend of the comedy store and of the scene. Like he was, like, it just felt kind of like a Saturday, like we're doing spots, and I wanted to just capture it and just me working out material. It was very much so like an exercise. It was like, oh, yeah, and I refer to notes because I was trying out. I did new stuff on that special. You did? Yeah, I did like new material.”

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  28. “Connected. That's right. And it was Evan Goldberg. Yeah. Who was in the audience for the show, and I just talked to him just like midway through the show to start talking to Evan.”

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